Accounting Manager

Overview

The Accounting Manager is responsible for accurate and successful completion of all accounting department function and duties, including but not limited to, reconcilement, financial reporting, and internal controls.

Responsible for managing their team and timely and accurate reconcilement of all accounts, journal entry and month-end processes. Collaborates with other departments to ensure timely clearing of outstanding items. Understands all aspects of the reconcilement area, and reports any deficiencies or risk to management. Ensures all processes are performed in an efficient manner and that they comply with Bank and Federal regulations and guidelines.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensures all reconciliations are completed and reviewed timely and accurately, in accordance with policy.
• Acts as a key liaison between the Bank and external auditors, internal auditors, and regulators.
• Maintains reconciliation system, ensuring daily jobs are completed.
• Manages reconciliation system vendor, including contract management, vendor risk annual reviews, and managing service level agreements.
• Ensures compliance with financial and internal controls assigned to them and their team.
• Works closely in the recruitment and selection process, such as conducting and providing feedback from interviews, recruiting within the budget, identifying opportunities for cost savings and ensuring proper departmental specifics for on-boarding.
• Provides timely feedback to employees (check-ins, reports, annual evaluations, coaching, and disciplinary action).
• Development of high potential employees, identifying, providing growth opportunities with training, meeting inclusion, shadowing, etc, in conjunction with the Center for Professional and Organizational Development.
• Ensuring assignment and accomplishment of goals holding employees accountable, measuring results cross training, and eliciting innovation and process improvement.
• Maintaining employee motivation engagement & recognition.
• Inspiring employee commitment and integrity, modeling-cultural values and positive behaviors.
• Managing over-time control in a timely manner, within the requirements of FLSA standards.
• Ensuring, regulatory excellence in all aspects of employee responsibilities by monitoring regulatory expectation specific to each report and holding employees accountable to their specific regulatory responsibilities.
• Ensures productivity levels are maintained through effective monitoring of processes. Motivates, trains, and leads personnel to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Maintains a cohesive, cross-trained, knowledgeable team. Increases their understanding of accounting principles.
• Maintains proper documentation to support reconciliations as needed and to perform any necessary research.
• Ensures separation of duties to mitigate any financial risk to the Bank.
• Maintains current internal policy & procedure for all departments processes.
• Escalates reconciling differences in accordance with established thresholds.
• Identifies workflow inefficiencies and propose solutions to automate manual processes.
• Ensures that all internal policies and procedures are created or updated as changes are implemented.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in Accounting in a banking environment or audit firm working on banking/regulated industry clients.
• Experience with Blackline or other comparable reconciliation system preferred.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong understanding of operational processes, challenges and issues.
• Strong problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to take initiative and critically analyze processes and procedures in a push toward constant improvement Independent decision making and strong control mindset.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance. 

Special Instructions to Candidates

• Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
• Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP  here.
• The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to assist individuals with disabilities to complete the online application process. Please contact our Human Resources Department at 305-577-7680 or by e-mail at employment@citynational.com.